11th hour funding saves UAF-TMHS marine bio class

Thursday in a lab at UAF’s Lena Point facility, the new DEMBONES class is shown part of the carcass of a baby orca that they will harvest bones from. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
Shannon Atkinson is in a lab showing a Thunder Mountain High School class part of the body of a baby orca, also known as a killer whale.
“This animal happened to be a neonate – meaning it was just born. Its teeth hadn’t even erupted,” she said.
Atkinson is a University of Alaska Fairban